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| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5669 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 1 of 82 24 November 2009 at 12:57am | IP Logged | ||
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On average, how many hours a day do you study your target language(s)?
For Spanish, I usually do about 4 hours doing various tasks such as:Shadowing, listening, reading,and vocabulary review. This is my main language at the time. For Arabic, I put in about a good hour and half of studying. I'm still in the early stages of the language so I mainly:Read, listen a lot,and vocabulary review. If I am in the mood, I'll look over a grammar book just to get the feel for the grammar. So in a night, even if it is a school night, which may change next year, I do about a total of five and a half hours. This is all depending if I have other things planed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5632 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 2 of 82 24 November 2009 at 1:09am | IP Logged | ||
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You have an amazing study discipline delta910. Well done.
I don't have any set time because my schedule varies. I'll fit in as much as I can, when I can... Sometimes several hours, sometimes half an hour. I also don't want to overdo it and get bored or "burned out". I have "been there, done that" several times over with boring force-fed language classes at school. Never again! This time it's the languages I, want.. how and when I want it... 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5693 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 3 of 82 24 November 2009 at 1:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Four hours of study with one-hour blocks per language, plus another one of watching soaps and listening to the news.
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| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6322 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 4 of 82 24 November 2009 at 1:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I watch one hour of soap operas and/or news, read the newspaper (or a book) and after
that I write something (up to 10 lines usually). If I have time, I try to think in the L2 for 10 or 15 minutes too. I do this exercises both for Swedish, Dutch and Italian (about 2 hours each one approx.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6577 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 82 24 November 2009 at 3:18am | IP Logged | ||
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I do about 2-3 hours of work out of a textbook in Italian. This happens daily. Then I do half an hour of reading a novel, which is a bit less regular. Then I do anywhere between half an hour and an hour and a half of tv/movie watching with content dubbed in Italian. This again is not strictly regular, but happens maybe half the time. So all in all I average a little over 3 hours.
It has been (only?) (already!) 3 months, so I hope I can keep going at this pace for maybe a year and see where it gets me. Edited by numerodix on 24 November 2009 at 3:21am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sweychan Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5275 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: French, Swedish | Message 6 of 82 24 November 2009 at 3:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, when learning french I do the easiest and that is going to classes, besides I read books, I watch TV shows , etc and as for swedish, well it's really hard to find swedish classes where I live so I just stick to books, TV shows and the internet
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| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5368 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 82 24 November 2009 at 4:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Half an hour a day when I can.
Slow and steady.. that's the best you can do when you get a job and get married 12 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5361 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 8 of 82 24 November 2009 at 5:02am | IP Logged | ||
This is my philosophy too. My schedule is too hectic to set aside a certain amount of time every day, but I try to do something in at least two languages every day. I usually do a little bit of study in the morning and more at night, and recently I've also begun reading in foreign languages on my breaks at work. That usually comes out to anywhere from a half-hour to three hours a day. I could probably do more, but I have a full-time job and I like to get a lot of sleep. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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